Friendship is not about ships—no matter how big and fancy and expensive the yacht is.

Music is my enchanter, the seducer of my emotions, the fire and ice that moves me.

I survive on moments of make-believe happiness.

Imagine fantasy and pretend as neither fantastical nor pretended.....and then believe it.

Family gathersto share good noise and good food.Gratitude abounds.

It is an incapacitating emotion one feels upon hearing the whispered words "I still love you" after deeply hurting that soul. Forgiveness isn't weakness.It is power.

Reality is a background so painted over by our own perceptions that every eye sees the world differently.

Theories look great on paper until reality scribbles all over the page.

Dreams become reality once the dreamer goes beyond imagining and acts them out.

I can and will improve the world.I will smile, show kindness, and be grateful.I refuse to be unhappy.

Giddy is a grin and giggles and that glint of goofiness in your gaze.

My faith helps me understand that circumstances don't dictate my happiness, my inner peace.

The sharpest sting of adversity it borrows from our own impatience.

Chicago Cubs fans are ninety percent scar tissue.

There wasn't enough gratitude in the world for a server who kept drinks coming at a time like this.

And now after all this time I finally figured out how to trap him... I will become him.

I can't let safety and security become the focus of my life.

No one ever lost his honor, except he who had it not.

Everyone wants someone they can hold and love. Someone who will be there to help pick up the pieces when everything falls apart. (Acheron)

Great success is built on failure, frustration, even catastrophe.

Sometimes it is hell, trying to get to heaven.